server.js

var sys = require('sys'),
eyes = require('eyes'),
url = require('url'),
querystring = require('querystring'),
httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

exports.start = function() {
  var static = require('node-static');
  // Create a node-static server to serve the current directory
  var file = new(static.Server)('./public', { cache: 7200, headers: {'X-Hello':'World!'} });
  require('http').createServer(function (request, response) {
    
    request.body = '';
    
    
    // proxy api requests to listening master
    if(request.url.search('/api') > -1) {
      sys.puts('trying pipe message to api');
      request.url = request.url.replace('/api', '');
      var proxy = new httpProxy.HttpProxy(request, response);
      proxy.proxyRequest(9001, 'localhost', request, response);
      return;
    }
    
    request.addListener('data',function(chunk){
      request.body += chunk
    });
    
    request.addListener('end', function () {

      var params = querystring.parse(url.parse(request.url).query);
      var posted = querystring.parse(request.body);
      sys.puts(request.body);

      if(request.url.search('/signups') > -1){
        /*
            Perform signup
        */
          response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/html"});
          response.write('foo');
          response.end();
        });
      }
      
      else if(request.url.search('/login') > -1) {
        /*
            Attempt login
        */
        sys.puts('trying to login');
        
        if(posted.password == "foo") {
          response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"application/json"});
          response.write('{"result":true}');
          response.end();
        }
        else {
          response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"application/json"});
          response.write('{"result":false}');
          response.end();
        }
        
      }

      else{
        if(request.url == '/'){
          request.url = "index.html";
        }
        file.serve(request, response, function (err, res) {
          if (err) { // An error as occured
            sys.error("> Error serving " + request.url + " - " + err.message);
            response.writeHead(err.status, err.headers);
            response.end();
          } else { // The file was served successfully
            sys.puts("> " + request.url + " - " + res.message);
          }
        });
      }
    });
  }).listen(8080);
  sys.puts("> client is listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080");
};